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Garden Gate:  What fruit/vegtable do you hate?  |
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Betty J.
True Blue Farmgirl
1409 Posts
Betty
Pasco
WA
USA
1409 Posts |
 Posted - Jul 24 2009 : 5:42:27 PM
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I'm really not a fan of garbanzo beans. They are sort of, ummm, mealy.
Betty in Pasco |
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electricdunce
True Blue Farmgirl
2544 Posts
Karin
Belmont
ME
USA
2544 Posts |
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LauriP
True Blue Farmgirl
239 Posts
Laurianne
Hertford
North Carolina
USA
239 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 09:18:57 AM
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~~  ~~ With as many people on here who don't like okra, why is it that when seeds become available in the stores or online, okra seems to be the one packet that is on sale for a lower price??
Is there something we should know??!!  ...poor lil' okra..it's jus' so badddd...
Laurianne |
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82kygal
True Blue Farmgirl
548 Posts
Laura
Somerset
Kentucky
USA
548 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 09:29:21 AM
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Green beans can't stand em. My DH thought he likes them so he planted two rows of them.Guess what I have been doing for the last two weeks. Yup canning green beans. YUCK! Mom thinks it is so funny because she knows! My hubby said I need to learn to like them. I am 44yrs old I haven't started liking them yet I'm thinking its not going to happen
With God, all things are possible. (Mark 10:27)
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
2199 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 09:30:14 AM
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I have seen years where okra seeds were sold out before any other veggy, and I love okra. This year grasshoppers ate all my seedlings, and it was to late to start more. They sell like wildfire at the farmers market, and since this thread, you who don't like okra are the first I've ever met that said that.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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Huckelberrywine
True Blue Farmgirl
1607 Posts
Michelle
Rosalia
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Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 09:35:46 AM
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I will eat just about anything. Really. Drives DH nuts when I pick something on a walk in the woods or some other natural place and eat it and offer him some (I love wild edibles) "No, really, tastes like lemonade, try it". But, I will pick every lima bean out of anything and leave a little pile of pure evil on the side of my plate.
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Lessie Louise
True Blue Farmgirl
1406 Posts
Carol
PECULIAR
MO
USA
1406 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 3:06:43 PM
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I have to say it's okra but those nasty little brussel sprouts are pretty bad too. I just love Mangos, but the facial swelling and hives just are not worth it!
how sweet it is to love some one, how right itis to care |
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quiltingfarmergirl
True Blue Farmgirl
180 Posts
Barbara
Cato
NY
USA
180 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 7:26:28 PM
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Rhubarb and cranberry sauce! Rhubarb is just sour and yuck, cranberry sauce tastes like tin cans!
Pickled beets are the best! I have been canning them the last 2 week ends, don't want to do without when the cold winter winds blow...
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AuntieM
True Blue Farmgirl
151 Posts
Marjorie
Holly Springs
NC
USA
151 Posts |
Posted - Jul 25 2009 : 8:47:42 PM
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| Oh my gosh, I like almost all veggies and fruits, but I do have "issues" with asparagus, beets and mangoes. Mangoes taste like I'm drinking straight from the perfume bottle! Also, although not a veggie, I just hate cilantro! I can't even stand the way it smells! |
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13988 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
13988 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 06:43:52 AM
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Well, I've been called the "salad queen" and there is very little in the way of vegetables or fruits I don't like. Can't think of any fruit I don't like . . .
. . . but as far as vegetables go . . TURNIPS!!!!! PARSNIPS!!!!!
Looks like I'm not the only one!!!
CJ
from the barefoot farmgirl |
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prairie_princess
True Blue Farmgirl
613 Posts
Elizabeth
Carpenter
WY
USA
613 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 08:33:21 AM
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i consider myself very lucky... there aren't any fruits or veggies i can think of that i HATE. i have this thing with food... i'm determined to like it ALL so i'll always try something more than once. i feel if i keep trying it, eventually my taste buds will finally give in and allow me to like it. the ONLY thing i still havn't managed to like is liver... and i suppose vegemite, but i doubt i will ever have the chance to try that again.
if i am not absolutely fond of some fruit or veggie, i'll try to find new ways to like it. like raw celery.... it's not my favorite, but making "ants on a log" works for me! (take a stick of celery, spread on some peanut butter, and top with raisins!)
"Only two things that money can't buy, that's true love and homegrown tomatoes."
- Guy Clark
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 10:05:27 AM
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Another vote for(or against) okra!
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 12:31:57 PM
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It's so funny reading these. Now, I like Okra (if it's cooked well...and there are some BAD cooks of Okra out there!). I also like parsnips--there is this great little restaurant in Louisville that makes "parsnip fries". Like french fries, only parsnips. And they toss em' with a little bit of cajun spice and YUM. Sweet/spicy goodness.
I also think we hate certain vegetables because of the method in which we have been given them. My poor, sweet, well intentioned mother always used frozen or canned veges and wouldn't know what to do with a fresh vege if it bit her (you should SEE her turn down all the green beans and other yummies I grow). I always thought green beans needed to be boiled to death, to the point that they're just mush, but now I know differently :) My mother always hated brussel sprouts until she had them at the restaurant my husband works at...when prepared appropriately, they're the best thing ever.
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
1646 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 12:51:17 PM
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| That's so funny and so true Jonni. I swear I'm traumatized by some of the canned vegs we had as kids. Canned wax beans...now there's a taste sensation! And there's nothing like the texture of nice canned peas that have been boiled. LOL Oh dear.. |
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
2199 Posts
Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
2199 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 3:29:48 PM
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I guess I was very sheltered as a kid, I have never ate store bought canned veggys or fruit, always fresh or home canned.
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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laurzgot
True Blue Farmgirl
1926 Posts
Laurie
Alvin
Texas
USA
1926 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 4:16:44 PM
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I'm not a picky eater,but... I will not eat rhubarb or brussel sprouts.
Laurie
suburban countrygirl at heart |
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knittingmom
True Blue Farmgirl
665 Posts
AnneMarie
Edmonton
Alberta
Canada
665 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 4:20:31 PM
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Beets, never liked them. EWWwww.
"There is no foot so small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world" |
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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 5:41:54 PM
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I have to add my two-cents about OKRA! I've tried and tried and tried to eat it...even cooked by friends in Alabama who know how to cook it...still can't do it. I used to hate lima beans, but even those are pretty good with butter and salt. I even got used to "mushy peas" when I lived in England (think canned, boiled peas mashed and mixed with salt and vinegar). But okra...no go!
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
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peapicker
True Blue Farmgirl
716 Posts
texas
USA
716 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2009 : 5:50:24 PM
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| I love okra, but I have had all my life and that might make a difference. The same with black eye peas. |
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 07:31:47 AM
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Originally posted by DaisyFarm
That's so funny and so true Jonni. I swear I'm traumatized by some of the canned vegs we had as kids. Canned wax beans...now there's a taste sensation! And there's nothing like the texture of nice canned peas that have been boiled. LOL Oh dear..
Now that IS a taste sensation, Diane!!! How funny! Mom always had canned beets--it took me forever to realize they weren't REALLY that texture (or shape) in real life, and canned, limp, strangely colored asparagus with the packet mix of "hollondaise" sauce. My dad (only to me) said more than once, "your mother should have been a cook at an old folks home! But, it was the 70's and 80's and all that stuff was in your grocery and marketers pushed instant, instant, instant.
Bless her--when I think how quickly it took me to make dinner last night (even with digging for the fingerling potatoes, cutting green beans, picking fresh basil, blanching, peeling and seeding the tomato for the fish sauce)--only took me 40 minutes from garden to plate to put a healthy, wonderful meal down for my husband and I.
I'm trying to think of some others that I hate, but it's difficult. I LOVE food!
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
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Room To Grow
True Blue Farmgirl
974 Posts
Deborah
Kingston
Georgia
USA
974 Posts |
Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 6:24:25 PM
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I hate brussel sprouts and rutabaga
we have moved to our farm...and love it |
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Jul 28 2009 : 11:12:45 PM
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The only vegs I will NOT eat are asparagus BBBBRRRRRR :( For the rest I like them all, one better than the other but like them all.
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
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Almost daily updates on me and mine :)
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maggie14
True Blue Farmgirl
6784 Posts
Hannah
Washington
USA
6784 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2009 : 9:39:24 PM
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I love them all!! I really like them when there fresh and Raw.
Maggie |
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hotmamaj
Farmgirl in Training
26 Posts
janice
buckeye
az
USA
26 Posts |
Posted - Nov 08 2009 : 3:09:59 PM
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I really don't like Okra.
I can eat most anything but my all time favorite fruit is apples.... I worked on an Apple Ranch in Southern California for 5 seasons. It was the best job I have ever had. I went from a taster to working in the bakery.... that was sooo much fun.apple this and apple that...mmmmmmmm goooood
Welcome the dawn of everyday with a smile & open heart |
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Claude09647
True Blue Farmgirl
761 Posts
Claudia
Our Dairy Farm
Pennsylvania
USA
761 Posts |
Posted - Nov 08 2009 : 3:25:41 PM
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oh my ha ha, i love mangos!! But the one veggie that i just cant take is carrots. I love them cooked but when they are raw i just cant do it.
"My ideal day is sitting on the back porch, cup of green tea in hand, slippers on, and just watch the cows in the pasture"
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